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I'd love to see a turbotax alternative that

1. imports your previous turbotax years

2. charges $10 less than turbotax

3. offers a free version gated by income

4. squirrels away some percentage of profits each year to a big "F U" fund, half of which goes to lobbying for permanent income tax simplification, half of which goes to directly paying out the shareholders in the company on dissolution.



Sounds like a good project for Intuit. Create a new competitor to TurboTax for the low-end market. Upsell into TurboTax. And for #4, they could become the defacto IRS tool with perfect regulatory capture funded by government subsidies.


This is basically https://www.taxact.com, minus #4


#4 is the key part! I mean maybe I have an irrational obsession with the idea of a corporation chartered with an expiration date, heh.




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